Kildin Saami
[aka Kildin Sámi, Eastern Saami, Kola Saami]Classification: Uralic
·severely endangered
Classification: Uralic
·severely endangered
Kildin Sámi, Eastern Saami, Kola Saami, кильдинский саамский язык, Кӣллт са̄мь кӣлл, Kiillt saam' kiill, kiltinänsaame, Gielddasámegiella, Kildin Sami, "Kildin Lappish", "Lapp" |
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Information from: “Documenting the endangered Kola Saami languages” (39–82) . Michael Riessler and Joshua Wilbur (2007) , Tove Bull and Jurij Kusmenko and Michael Rießler · Nordeuropa-Institut der Humbolt-Universität
" The number of 500-700 speakers, which is found in most reference books, seems to be rather optimistic."
"...several older and even a few younger Kildin Saami use their mother tongue in conversation with family members, relatives and friends. On the whole, however, the number of Kildin speakers is decreasing rapidly from year to year and the language must be characterized as severely endangered. Especially among the younger generation, there is a strong decline in active language competence due to the lack of a vibrant speech community and the lack of social motivations for learning and using Saami."
Russian
"Even though only a few Saami seem to use the orthography, each different orthographic variant has its own group of adherents, and they frequently have very emotional views concerning the other variants."
Kola peninsula
"Originally, Kildin was spoken in most parts of the central Kola Peninsula. Today, more or less compact Kildin Saami settlements in or close to their original villages are found only in Lujavv’r, Revda, Kola, and Teriberka. But small Kildin Saami speach communities are found today in all larger settlements, such as in Murmansk, Olenegorsk, Apatity, etc."
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “"Kola Sámi" DoBES Project” . Jurij Kusmenko and Michael Rießler and Elisabeth Scheller (2006)
There are probably less than 300 speakers of Kildin who actively use their language
Kola Peninsula, northwestern-most region of Russia
Information from: “Reclaiming Sámi languages: indigenous language emancipation from East to West” . Rasmussen, Torkel and Shaun Nolan, John (2020) De Gruyter Mouton
"Kildin, Inari, Skolt and South Sámi languages are all spoken by 300 to 1000 individuals. Although these four
varieties risk being replaced by the dominating languages, they are transmitted to children at home in some families and/or in special scholastic immersion environments known as “language nests” for a smaller number of children, and language emersion camps for adolescents. Therefore, they are not immediately threatened by extinction”
Sámi is used as a supplmentary language in one kindergarten in Lovozero and in "mother tongue" instruction for 2-3 hours/week at one school in Lovozero for grades 1-4 (this is in reality foreign language instruction for the students.) There is a Sámi radio station in Lovozero that transmits 25 minutes/week of Kildin Sámi.
"The Sámi associations in the Murmansk area and the Kola Sámi Documentation Project have produced teaching materials, grammars, an online Kildin Sámi–Russian dictionary, arranged several language courses, conversation circles and immersion education for young people. This immersion education took the form of intensive two week camps during the summer of 2007 and 2008, where the participants were trained by elderly mother tongue speakers who spoke only Sámi to them (Rießler and Scheller 2007; Scheller 2008).”
Russia, Murmansk County
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
1,000
"1,900 Saami in the Russian Federation (1995 M. Krauss). Data for the ethnic population is from M. Krauss (1995).